Sentences with phrase «called ecclesia»
Farley describes existence which is specifically Christian as a special form of co-intending called ecclesia, a redemptive co-intending which leads us away from idolatry and flight, to freedom from self - securing and to obligation and to obligation toward one other.
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This palpable «communio» is the basis for the kinds of collaborative relationships between the hierarchy and Catholic universities that Ex Corde Ecclesiae called for.
In a word, he might be said to have formed the first ecclesia, the earliest church, called out from the doomed majority to be a redeeming minority.
Hauerwas insists the first task of the church is to be a people, an ecclesia, called out from the world (the root meaning of ek - klesia), whose task is not first to change the world but to form a people who live in accordance with the nonviolent way of Jesus.
Church in the Greek Language of the New Testament was called the «ecclesia» is the Greek word «ecclesia» is correctly defined as: «The called - out (ones)» [ECC = out; KALEO = call].
The state of Christian unity» both its presence and absence» is the concern of an important new initiative called «The Princeton Proposal for Christian Unity,» the product of three years of discussion under the auspices of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology, publisher of the distinguished theological journal Pro Ecclesia.
Pope John Paul II called for opposition to this omission in his 2003 apostolic exhortation Ecclesia in Europa.
The claim that «justification by faith alone» is the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae (the doctrine by which the Church stands or falls) is a distinctly minority position among Protestants who call themselves evangelicals.
Ecclesia was historically «the name given to the governmental assembly of the city of Athens, duly convoked (called out) by proper officers and possessing all political power including even juridical functions.»
I call this the task of covenant publicity, for which we can draw on the ancient traditions of covenant that underlie modern federalism as well as on the ideas of council, republic and ecclesia.